Tourist attraction
London Eye
Riverside Building, County Hall, Westminster Bridge Rd, London SE1 7PB, UK
Cantilevered observation wheel on the Thames, rising one hundred and thirty-five metres with views across forty kilometres of London.
This guide to the London Eye follows architects David Marks and Julia Barfield, who entered a design competition for a millennium landmark in 1993 and then risked their own home to see it built. You'll hear about their radical single-frame design that engineers doubted, and the contractors who nearly stripped out the innovations during construction. It traces the wheel's assembly on Thames barges before it was ever lifted upright.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.